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Witness Elimination: Vigilante Justice (Nick Justin Chronicles # 2) by Scott Johni

Darkly methodical and sharply written. In the second volume of the Nick Justin Chronicles, Johni takes readers into a Florida shaped by storms, corruption, and quiet war, where survival depends less on justice than on who is willing to act…
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QUEER JUSTICE: a novel by Alex Charns

Grim, intelligent, and quietly explosive. Set against the political tensions of 1960s Washington, Charns’s latest novel traces the cost of truth in a system engineered to suppress it. 1966, Washington. When George Smith, a jailed Black teenager, claims he holds…
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The ICE Murders (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond, Book 10) by Geoffrey M Cooper

Lean, tense, and politically charged; a page-turner. In the tenth entry in the Brad Parker and Karen Richmond series, Cooper takes readers on a tense, morally urgent investigation where political power, institutional secrecy, and murder collide.  Dr. Abina Owusu, a…
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Nevermore: Book Two of the Poetic Justice Series by Findlay Ward

Taut, atmospheric, and psychologically driven; a quiet thriller with bite. A disappearance on a remote island forces the past to surface—and refuse silence in Ward’s second entry in the Poetic Justice Series.Schoolteacher Rachael McKenzie convinces her abusive husband, Brandon, to…
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The Day I Lost You by Ruth Mancini

A dark, cleverly constructed mystery. Mancini’s latest is a sharp, spiraling thriller in which a missing baby binds three adults to a past none of them can escape. Lauren has rebuilt her life in a quiet Spanish seaside town, trying…
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Lords of Sixty Third Street by Edward Izzi

A tense, propulsive novel steeped in moral pressure and urban menace. In Izzi’s charged crime thriller, a reporter’s pursuit of justice puts him in the crosshairs of the Outfit, street gangs, and the city’s most corrupt power brokers. When his…
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Mortal Revenge by Ana Manwaring, Fernando León Torrens

Intense, harrowing, and profoundly gripping. Ana Manwaring and Fernando León Torrens deliver a taut, hard-hitting thriller that drops one man into a world where trust is dangerous and survival is never guaranteed. What should have been a simple visit home…
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Lightning by Michael Ray Ewing

A sleek, unnerving sci-fi thriller that runs on dread and precision. Three strangers find themselves pulled into a catastrophe already in motion in Ewing’s compelling latest. Adam Barnett wakes after a lightning strike with half his memory burned away and…
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Because of His Heart by Stephen A Marvin

A taut, beautifully written psychological thriller about desire, deceit, and the fragile limits of understanding.  Marvin crafts a chilling portrait of love corroded by guilt and the dangerous intimacy that turns affection into fixation. Physician Erica Seames and journalist Charles…
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CARPE Ski ’em: A Murder on Skis Mystery by Phil Bayly

Intelligent, atmospheric, and slyly funny. Bayly spins a brisk, witty mountain mystery that pairs Denver TV reporter JC Snow with his cameraman and longtime sidekick Bip Peters. When a stylish skier calmly steps off a high Colorado chairlift and plummets…
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Journal of the late Amelia Earhart by Frank Okolo

Technically precise, emotionally resonant, and compulsively readable. Okolo delivers a chillingly plausible reimagining of aviation’s most famous mystery in his compelling novel. The book’s premise is simple but provocative: what if Amelia did not vanish into the Pacific but survived…